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QUEEN SILVIA OF Sweden says the royal palace where she resides is haunted, according to a documentary to be aired on public television today.
“There are small friends… ghosts. They’re all very friendly but you sometimes feel that you’re not completely alone,” Queen Silvia says in the documentary by SVT.
“It’s really exciting. But you don’t get scared,” she adds.
Drottningholm Palace, which is on the UNESCO world heritage list, was built in the 1600s on Lovon island in Stockholm.
It is the permanent residence of King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia, the 73-year-old daughter of a German businessman and a Brazilian woman. They were married 40 years ago, which makes her Sweden’s longest-serving queen.
Princess Christina, Silvia’s sister, backs the claims of the Drottningholm phantoms.
“There is much energy in this house. It would be strange if it didn’t take the form of guises,” Christina was quoted as saying the documentary.
There’s stories about ghosts in all old houses. They have been filled with people over the centuries. The energies remain.
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Well, if our patrol boats were actually patrolling our coasts rather than acting as a migrant ferry system that might help. Even then, we don’t have anywhere near the naval capacity to keep tabs on everything happening in our waters.
Jason…the worlds largest trawler is currently docked in Ijmuiden….formerly the Irish Veronica.
The Irish Navy is now just an extension of the Italian Navy.
The Irish navy are a taxpayer funded human trafficking service.
Both of these things should be done at once. The Navy should be helping the people fleeing war to get to somewhere safe. People of course are more important than dolphins or whales. Though I wholeheartedly believe that dolphins and whales should be protected.
Nicola what wars are all these migrants fleeing? They are coming from all parts of Africa before hopping on inflatables in Tripoli to go 30 miles off the African coast to get picked up by the navy/ferry service!
I think the navy has more than 1 ship. As they only seem to have one ship working in the Med at the time I’m assuming the remaining 7-8 ships are patrolling Irish waters and doing fishery protection.
Our “fishery protection vessels” ( not navy ) are NOT helping people flee wars….they are enabling people flee countries all over the continent of Africa that do not have social welfare systems.
A number are in port at all times for crew changes, provisioning, refitting, repairs etc…
Atlantic dawn not veronica fyi
And lest we forget , to our shame , we started the rot in 2000 by launching one of the worlds worst super trawler the Atlantic Dawn …!
Hoovering up precious fish catches off the west coast of Africa.
Environmental groups called it ‘ neo-colonialism ‘ at the time .
Aiden…i stand corrected.
@Jason Culligan: Our navy is carrying out of humanitarian mission in the Med’….you and others who have a problem with rescuing men, women and children are less fortunate then you might look up the meaning of ‘Humanitarian’ in the dictionary.
* that are less fortunate then you
At this stage , dolphins and whales and some other animals should have non human person hood, along with the legal protections afforded with that. We know they are incredibly intelligent and social animals, and even have their own language .
If they were so intelligent they would of invented the iPhone and wouldn’t perform tricks for food
For tens of thousands of years humans lived out of caves and threw stone-tipped spears at wild animals. Lack of technology doesn’t directly mean a lack of intelligence.
*would have invented
Cholly, did you invent the iPhone? Could you have? Now think about your social behaviour and ask yourself if you never pro formed a ‘trick’ for food.
OK ok I stand corrected
Funny cholly, but there are over six billion humans who didn’t invent the iPhone, and we all perform for food somehow.
Humans think they’re the most intelligent creatures on the planet because they invented the iphone, and all dolphins do is splash around in the sea and have fun all day.
Dolphins think they’re the most intelligent creatures on the planet for the very same reasons.
Monitoring? No no no.. Our hero “Navy” are too busy in the Southern Med facilitating human traffickers to be bothered about our costal waters…
Ban supertrawlers
@Conor Ryan: I was waiting to see this comment so I could agree wholeheartedly. Whats wrong with returning to smaller scale local fishing fleets? More jobs, better for the ocean hence better for the planet.
Nah the Navy is too busy with its do-gooder ferry service
Outrage because 3 dolphins died? Not because of the fact that the super trawlers are decimating oceans ecosystems?
For those who don’t quite understand this comment, know that this happens to an estimated 300,000 every year. Such a nice f*****g species, aren’t we. http://uk.whales.org/wdc-in-action/shrouded-by-sea-sad-truth-about-dolphin-deaths-in-fishing-nets
Neither of the infamous pair of supertrawlers are near the Irish coast right now…..the Annalies Illena and the Margiris….but there was silence when they and their small German sisters were off Donegal.
Would be nice if someone blew them out of the water! Nice big lump of Semtex would do it. Crew and all!
How would you feel if that actually happened? A net negative?
Plenty of dolphins being killed right now in Taiji, Japan.
Look up Facebook pages Ric O Barry dolphin project or Sea Shepherd Cove Guardians.
The slaughter occurs everyday in Taiji from Sept 1st to March first. What drives this killing…? The ‘Swim with Dolphin businesses/SeaWorlds of this World.
They pay for the Japanese to capture and train the ‘Pretty young dolphins from the ocean’….meanwhile the older males/females are slaughtered. Google YouTube ‘ PSA My friend is’
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All trawlers no matter how big or small kill dolphin and alot of pilot whales they are gutted when hauled abaord to enable them to sink to hide them really if we want to eat fish this is the price Save our oceans DON’T EAT FISH
Give the documentary Atlantic a watch. Real eye opening about what’s going on in Irish waters
Super trawlers are crazy, normal people have a limit to what they can fish for and these can rape the entire ocean… How?
The sea’s are over fished and so many other fish are been killed unnecessary something has to be done about this!
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